Kube kadi | Koyyol ghassi | Clams curry Manglorean style

Kube means clam in Konkani, a language spoken in Mangalore, Udupi and Goa. A lot of dishes are made in Mangalore using clams. We add half of the shells with the meat for most of the recipes. Kube Kadi can be had with rice, idli or bread.

Since I was born and bought up in Udupi, I have seen my parents buying clams from the fisher women who would come home to sell it in baskets. We would also buy it from Santhekatte market(well known to be a Sunday market in Udupi) which is around 5kms from Udupi city.

There would be two types of clams popularly known in Konkani as Jadd Kube(smaller) and thisre kube/Bannada Koyyol (slightly wider), which also vary in the outer texture. In the 90's, the smaller version that is jadd kube were sold for around Rs. 20 for 1 "sher"(measured in 1 litre tins) and the latter, Thisre Kube were like Rs. 25 for 100 clams (they would actually count 100 clams and put it in the bag). I have used thisre kube for this recipe.